Post subject: Re: My SD tools are just about to arrive, what can they do ?

Posted: June 10th, 2015, 3:44

Joined: April 21st, 2015, 10:22Posts: 38Location: South Africa

I bought them second hand from a guy in the US, he gave me all the warnings to (non) usability. Also I got them super cheap, with manuals etc. so I more or less got the value I paid, and he got rid of them off his shelf.

Will play around with them, see what they can do although I'm not expecting much by any means. he said around 10% of his cases got solved by them, I suspect it may even be lower.

Post subject: Re: My SD tools are just about to arrive, what can they do ?

Posted: June 12th, 2015, 3:16

Joined: April 21st, 2015, 10:22Posts: 38Location: South Africa

Well so far I like the SD stuff way better than China Tools Stuff, glaring software design issues though. Basic stuff just not done right.

Paired it up with Anne's manuals to optimize learning experience. Playing with older working HDD's first, then will try to get some broken ones.

I must say its damn near impossible to download the latest software off their website. The lack of resume and stupidly slow download limit of ~24kb/s is just a recipe for multiple retries and frustration.

Post subject: Re: My SD tools are just about to arrive, what can they do ?

Posted: June 14th, 2015, 5:27

Joined: April 21st, 2015, 10:22Posts: 38Location: South Africa

Yep, I've started to see what everybody's been saying, no support for new HDD's and technology at all, basically works on years old HDD's only. The SD Forum is a joke, with everybody just left hanging out to dry.

Still I got it to learn, which I can do on older HDD's just as well as on new ones, in fact old HDD's are easier to come by, and cheaper (free). Plus I am now having the "SD experience", the real impact of tools that that don't work or perform at all and no support is all to real. I really feel for anybody trying to start a DR business with this stuff.

Also looks like the software is made with Delphi, in itself a defunct programming platform. I may try to decompile it as another exercise. if anything comes of it, I'll post here.

A LOT of software is made with Delphi and it isn't actually that bad. It's whole premise is Rapid app dev, and if you have a glance over http://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi you will see it is far from defunct

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Build a common UI that works across the multiple form factors of mobile phones, tablets, and desktop systems. Most mobile development solutions do not support the creation of PC apps for Windows and OS X.

Post subject: Re: My SD tools are just about to arrive, what can they do ?

Posted: June 14th, 2015, 10:01

Joined: April 21st, 2015, 10:22Posts: 38Location: South Africa

I also used to program in Delphi for that very reason, Apps came together in no time flat and Business Apps could be put together with minimal effort.

I even had Kylix, you could make Apps for linux and Windows off the same codebase (more or less). Wan't perfect at all, then Borland just dropped Kylix at v3, good thing Mono was then produced.

Then the Delphi ecosystem got screwed up (at that stage was Delphi 7 afaik, Microsoft poached all of Borland top dev's, those are the guys that made .Net) and I had to move on, to .Net of all things. Never really looked into Delphi again after that. Glad to hear its still going though.

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